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- For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
- The Talmud
- He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
- John Russell
- I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
- Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
- Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Bible, Psalm lxxxv. 10.
- Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
- Bible, Proverbs iii. 17.
- If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
- It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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